Or Yeong-suthe actor he played ‘player 001’ In “The Squid Game”one of the most watched series of all time on Netflix, was sentenced this Friday by South Korean justice to a suspended sentence of eight months in prison for sexually harass a woman in 2017.
This was held by the Suwon District Court, south of Seoul the victim’s story is consistent and for this he sentenced the veteran actor, 79, to undergo a stalker program for 40 hours.
The prison sentence, meanwhile, remains stopped for two years. If O Yeong-su does not break any laws during that time, he will not have to go to prison.
The court assured in its ruling that the victim’s memories and her statements are “congruent” and it seems that “they could not have been made without having experienced them”.
The artist, who in 2022 became the first South Korean to win a Golden Globe as best supporting actor in a series for his portrayal of an old man in the famous dystopian series, he was indicted in November 2022 for having hugged and kissed a woman on the cheek between August and September 2017 during a theater tour, for which the Prosecutor’s Office requested one year’s imprisonment.
The interpreter, who has denied the accusations from the beginning, said as he left the court that he will appeal against the sentence handed down this Friday.
O Yeong-su’s great career
O Yeong-su was born in 1944 and his life was not easy at the beginning, since at a very young age he lost his father, murdered, and his brother, kidnapped by Northern forces during the Korean War.
He began his career as an actor in the 1970s, mainly in the theater, where he worked in more than 200 productions. He later began acting in film and television, often playing monks due to his experience with Buddhist works.
Furthermore be part of hundreds of works of classical Korean theater, he also acted in works by Western playwrights. O Yeoung-su is also a writer and was a soldier in his youth.
Thanks to this career, he later joined the Korean National Theater Company before starting to be called for specific roles in films and series.
In late 2021 he became internationally known by playing Oh Il-nam, the oldest contestant on The Squid Gamea series that imagines a macabre world where outcasts compete in traditional children’s games that turn deadly, and which has become Netflix’s most popular series, attracting 111 million followers in less than four weeks after its premiere in 2021.
Source: Clarin
